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...cost of the coursepack and the next two most expensive books, when bought at the Coop, is $302. Most distressing, though, has to be the Ec 10 “package deal” that the Coop is offering. One hundred and forty-nine dollars gets you a new textbook and new coursepack, wrapped together. Separately, the coursepack is $66 and the used textbook $111. In this case, the Coop’s vaunted efforts to save students money with used textbooks ring hollow in the face of the inflated coursepack price...
Professors can also help defray the rising costs of textbooks. Professors help keep textbook prices high by requiring students to carry the most recent editions and by changing textbooks wholesale when taking over a course. New editions and new textbooks destroy the used textbook market, even though new editions often do little more than change page numbers to render previous editions obsolete. Professors must make their courses compatible with the current and previous editions of textbooks to save students money, even for courses that draw their problem sets from the texts. And new professors must weigh carefully the benefits...
...course, professors are not ultimately to blame for the outrageous prices of course materials today. And though the Coop seemingly has room to improve a few coursepack prices, the store actually makes its lowest margins on textbooks. Those really to blame for high textbook prices, textbook publishers, face only as much pressure to lower prices as students and professors can exert. This situation is unlikely to change anytime soon. However, through some of the simple steps outlined—using e-resources, submitting reading lists earlier, remaining compatible with old editions, and avoiding switching textbooks—professors...
...can’t convey that in a photograph or textbook,” he said. “You have to actually be there and walk across Mauna Ulu, which is 50 miles long...
...during those several minutes of danger. After flying at a low altitude with the wing flaps (which are usually used to slow the plane on landing) deployed and the nose pitched up slightly higher than usual-all of which helped burn off unwanted fuel faster-the pilots executed a textbook emergency landing a Los Angeles. They brought the plane in as slow as possible, touched down in the center of the runway, and by holding the sidestick back kept the nosewheel from touching down until the last moment, and then applied the brakes to come to a safe stop...